Nice Myx and for just $870, yours beats mine as well in graphics, Power supply and mobo
I got same process and twice you RAM (close enough to the same PC lol), mine cost a little over $2000 when I built it in October 2006 (I only recently upgraded the RAM though) prices have surely dropped alot since back then lol
Your Tri monitors and what I would say OVERKILL lol
I probably should've explained the tri-monitor setup a bit more, so you get the gist of what's going on here....
To recap: The middle monitor is on a KVM switch, and acts as the PRIMARY monitor for both systems. [Call it "ON1."] The left-hand monitor is secondary for my old system ["O2"], and the right-hand monitor is secondary for my new system ["N2"].
I can play Halo from either machine - on ON1. (
COMPLETELY diff. video settings tho!!) basically game-play or the "work-at-hand" for the moment is on ON1, one way or another....
O2 usually displays any combination of a variety of other things that I might have going on at the same time. E.g. Disk burning, remote log-in to other machines doing backups, market quotes, w/e. It is also home to my TV display which is built-in to my old system (ATI 9700 All-In-Wonder,) so I often have the "news," Letterman, or Ferguson there....
N2 usually displays Ventrilo and xfire if I'm in-game, but that's ONLY IF I'm NOT running in SLi mode (with the two cards ganged together as one, which limits me to only ON1 use in that case....) Halo doesn't benefit from SLi at all, so I usually have those applications up on N2 when I'm racing with y'all....
So while it may look like "overkill," I had three, 21" Sony monitors on my desk throughout most of my computing career and came to make excellent use of all that landscape then, as I still seem to be able to do now! (FYI: I also ran "virtual desktop" software on my old 3-monitor "work" system, making each monitor act as if it were
NINE SCREENS, so I had
27 desktops!!!
So having a mere three now, is SOOO NOT overkill!
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